Legal Opinion
Brooks v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided March 10, 1941No. 9544PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WILBUR, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from an order adjudicating the appellants guilty of contempt of court. The appellants, New Mexico water users of the waters of the Gila River, were charged with having violated the in-junctive feature of a decree of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona affecting and defining the water rights of the United States and of the several defendants in the waters of Gila River in Arizona and New Mexico. The facts are not in dispute. The main defense presented by the appellants was the assertion that the court had no jurisdiction to make…
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